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Gentoo FreeBSD is just like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, except that it's built around Gentoo rather than pairing the Debian GNU user-land with the non-Linux kernel.

This is implies that Gentoo FreeBSD uses a GNU userland, which is incorrect. Gentoo FreeBSD uses a BSD userland. The quantity of GNU software present in Gentoo FreeBSD is comparable to the quantity of GNU software in FreeBSD itself.

Gentoo itself is not tied to a particular userland and being sourced based makes it easy to give users a choice of userlands. We currently only offer one option per kernel (unless uclibc on Linux counts as a separate userland), but I would be thrilled to provide users with the ability to use a BSD userland on Linux. That likely will not happen because no one is working on that. The only thing close to that is an effort that I am making to port some FreeBSD components to Linux to improve ZFS support.

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this reminds me of the wine developers spending time on dragonflybsd support instead of actually making wine be able to run better. if open source developers made shoes they would think about different blinking lights instead of making them comfortable.

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this reminds me of the wine developers spending time on dragonflybsd support instead of actually making wine be able to run better. if open source developers made shoes they would think about different blinking lights instead of making them comfortable.

this reminds me of user spending time complaining about the work of others instead of trying to grasp that their priorities do not have to be aligned with upstream projects.